Second, you're one to talk about herp-a-derping after your brainless meltdown in that other thread today. Shouldn't you be randomly accusing everyone in the thread of being a neoliberal conspiracy theorist and banging yourself in the head with blunt instruments while crooning?

Dude, it's a song lyric.You need to take your emotional affliction, political thread butthurt, and your harassment over to a moderator and turn yourself in for a timeout.

limeyfellow:The guy who signed into law some of the more restrictive antigun laws is going to protect the rights of gunowners. Got it. That like voting in Reagan after seeing all the antigun laws he passed in California and then being surprised when he signs the 86 GCA.

FTH - Hollyweird hipsters prevent Romney campaign from using their song, but American rock royaltythe musicians performing under the name Lynyrd SkynyrdTM swoops in and offers "Sweet Home Alabama" instead because they "still believe in the trickle-down effect their county fair bookings have been in decline in recent years, and they desperately need the PR jolt... particularly among the ignorant shiat-kickers who make up the Republican base

By all accounts, George Romney was one hell of a guy. How did his son manage to avoid picking up any of his wisdom or integrity? Every day I find myself asking myself what my father would do in situations, knowing that my father was an unwavering compass of integrity and honesty. Doesn't Mitt have any introspection at all?

By all accounts, George Romney was one hell of a guy. How did his son manage to avoid picking up any of his wisdom or integrity? Every day I find myself asking myself what my father would do in situations, knowing that my father was an unwavering compass of integrity and honesty. Doesn't Mitt have any introspection at all?

By all accounts, George Romney was one hell of a guy. How did his son manage to avoid picking up any of his wisdom or integrity? Every day I find myself asking myself what my father would do in situations, knowing that my father was an unwavering compass of integrity and honesty. Doesn't Mitt have any introspection at all?

Handguns are made for killin',They ain't no good for nothin' else.And if you like to drink your whiskeyYou might even shoot yourself!So why don't we dump 'em, peopleTo the bottom of the sea,Before some ol' fool come around hereWanna shoot either you or me.

By all accounts, George Romney was one hell of a guy. How did his son manage to avoid picking up any of his wisdom or integrity? Every day I find myself asking myself what my father would do in situations, knowing that my father was an unwavering compass of integrity and honesty. Doesn't Mitt have any introspection at all?

BritneysSpeculum:Ronnie was actually surprised that the public viewed Sweet Home Alabama as being pro-south. He always pointed out the fact that immediately after the line "In Birmingham they loved their governor" was the line "boo boo boo."

Second, you're one to talk about herp-a-derping after your brainless meltdown in that other thread today. Shouldn't you be randomly accusing everyone in the thread of being a neoliberal conspiracy theorist and banging yourself in the head with blunt instruments while crooning?

But that was long ago and far away.These guys are the tattered remnants of a 70's powerhouse.They liked drinking the best of whiskey and playing in a honky tonk barAnd if it came to a fix they weren't afraid to fight.

mat catastrophe:St_Francis_P: Why does that not surprise me in the slightest.

It should. The original members of the band were proudly Democratic and "Sweet Home Alabama" was just them saying to Neil Young that not all Southerners were mouth-breathing bigots.

The fact that their fans took it differently was apparently a source of some discomfort to the band later on.

I kinda see where they were going but . . .

From wiki: Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that one reading of the lyrics is an "attack against the liberals who were so outraged at Nixon's conduct" while others interpret it regionally "the band was speaking for the entire South, saying to northerners, we're not judging you as ordinary citizens for the failures of your leaders in Watergate; don't judge all of us as individuals for the racial problems of southern society".

How can they say they're pointing the finger at Northerners and calling Watergate a failure of their leaders, when Northerners (well, Northeasterners, at least) voted for Humphrey? With the exception of Texas, where sitting president LBJ still had some influence, the South was split between Wallace and Nixon.

And it's no surprise that Humphrey did so poorly in the South; he's the guy that inspired Strom Thurmond's third-party run in '48 by calling for a stronger civil rights plank in the Democratic Party's convention.

HighOnCraic:mat catastrophe: St_Francis_P: Why does that not surprise me in the slightest.

It should. The original members of the band were proudly Democratic and "Sweet Home Alabama" was just them saying to Neil Young that not all Southerners were mouth-breathing bigots.

The fact that their fans took it differently was apparently a source of some discomfort to the band later on.

I kinda see where they were going but . . .

From wiki: Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that one reading of the lyrics is an "attack against the liberals who were so outraged at Nixon's conduct" while others interpret it regionally "the band was speaking for the entire South, saying to northerners, we're not judging you as ordinary citizens for the failures of your leaders in Watergate; don't judge all of us as individuals for the racial problems of southern society".

How can they say they're pointing the finger at Northerners and calling Watergate a failure of their leaders, when Northerners (well, Northeasterners, at least) voted for Humphrey? With the exception of Texas, where sitting president LBJ still had some influence, the South was split between Wallace and Nixon.

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And it's no surprise that Humphrey did so poorly in the South; he's the guy that inspired Strom Thurmond's third-party run in '48 by calling for a stronger civil rights plank in the Democratic Party's convention.

Link

The Republican's Southern Strategy might not have worked if the Democrats hadn't put an ardent integrationist at the top of their ticket.

/Having read a bit more about it, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.//The Confederate flag on the album cover doesn't help, though.

mat catastrophe:HighOnCraic: mat catastrophe: St_Francis_P: Why does that not surprise me in the slightest.

It should. The original members of the band were proudly Democratic and "Sweet Home Alabama" was just them saying to Neil Young that not all Southerners were mouth-breathing bigots.

The fact that their fans took it differently was apparently a source of some discomfort to the band later on.

I kinda see where they were going but . . .

From wiki: Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that one reading of the lyrics is an "attack against the liberals who were so outraged at Nixon's conduct" while others interpret it regionally "the band was speaking for the entire South, saying to northerners, we're not judging you as ordinary citizens for the failures of your leaders in Watergate; don't judge all of us as individuals for the racial problems of southern society".

How can they say they're pointing the finger at Northerners and calling Watergate a failure of their leaders, when Northerners (well, Northeasterners, at least) voted for Humphrey? With the exception of Texas, where sitting president LBJ still had some influence, the South was split between Wallace and Nixon.

Link

And it's no surprise that Humphrey did so poorly in the South; he's the guy that inspired Strom Thurmond's third-party run in '48 by calling for a stronger civil rights plank in the Democratic Party's convention.

Link

The Republican's Southern Strategy might not have worked if the Democrats hadn't put an ardent integrationist at the top of their ticket.

/Having read a bit more about it, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.//The Confederate flag on the album cover doesn't help, though.

By all accounts, George Romney was one hell of a guy. How did his son manage to avoid picking up any of his wisdom or integrity? Every day I find myself asking myself what my father would do in situations, knowing that my father was an unwavering compass of integrity and honesty. Doesn't Mitt have any introspection at all?

WWGRD?

maybe mitt knows something about his private father that no one else does. george *is* the dude who indulged his son's 'be a fake cop' impulses.